新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2017/12/04

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Welcome to 'Today' - an hour of world news and analysis -- from a different perspective. I'm Zhaoying

Coming up：

--UN political chief in rare visit to Pyongyang.

--South Korea and U.S. kick off military drills amid North Korean warnings.

--Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed by Houthi rebels.

For more on this , we are joining in the studio by Zhao Tong,fellow in Carnegie's nuclear policy program based at the Carnegie-Tsinghua center for global policy；Wang Jin, PhD Candidate of Haifa University, Israel; research fellow, Syria Research Centre, Northwest University;research fellow, China-Globolization Center (CCG)；Rick Dunham,Co-director, Global Business Journalism¹ Program, Tsinghua University； Zhang Yi, current affairs commentator,earlier spoke² with my colleague Xu Yawen.

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1 journalism   

n.新闻工作，报业

参考例句：

• He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
• He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。

2 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。